• KTHO radio General Manager Paul Middlebrook and Lake Tahoe News Publisher Kathryn Reed each taped a segment about the media with host Steve Teshara to be aired on Douglas County’s public access television channel for a month.

• Tour de Tahoe – the Sept. 12 cycling event around Lake Tahoe – is working with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for the first time. Riders don’t need to be affiliated with the foundation. Click here for more information.

• The Friends of the West Shore meeting scheduled for July 24 has been canceled.

• The Fallen Leaf Lake Community Services District board came up with more questions July 17 about the inter-agency agreement that would be needed to get mitigation funds via El Dorado County and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to buy an electric boat. A decision could be months down the road.

• Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District board this month shot down an appeal by someone who doesn’t want Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District to build a diesel power plant.